Bauhaus Earth is a global initiative based in Berlin, Germany and comprised of a diverse group of ecosystem, material, and climate scientists, manufacturers and builders, architects and engineers, and experts in finance and policy. Its ambitious goal is the transformation of the global building sector and regional construction activity from a significant source of environmental impact to a force for ecological restoration and stabilization. Alan was a founding member of Bauhaus Earth and currently serves as its Director of Global Labs.
The cities we live in today were formed using extractive and environmentally harmful methods. If we continue to build as we have, the environmental and social impacts will be devastating. Yet increased urbanization is inevitable: 1.6 billion people live in multidimensional poverty today, and by 2050, another 2.5 billion humans will need housing. Close to sixty percent of the buildings needed in the coming century have yet to be built, the majority in the Global South.